the Chinese olfactory traditions were spread to the northern tribes as the books, physicians, and aromatics traveled to the newly established states. Many aromatics were exported at massive scale from China to the western world, especially during the Yuan rule. With the reestablishment of Han...
I have previously discussed the 13th-century precursor toJourney to the WestcalledThe Story of How Tripitaka of the Great Tang Procures the Scriptures. This 17-chapter storytelling prompt differs greatly from the final version. However, a little known precursor, the early-MingJourney to the West ...
ritually bribing the gods of life and death with a golden statue to be used as a substitute body, or inserting a fake death certificate into the coffin of a recently deceased grandfather. These methods essentially tricked heaven into thinking that the person had died (Campany...
7/19/21 Posted new paper under Time Series (DSEM): Dynamic structural equation modeling as a combination of time series modeling, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling. To be published as Chapter 31 in: The Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling (2nd edition); Rick H. Hoyle ...
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), trust in AI systems is becoming more important. Explainable recommenders, which explain why an item is recommended, have recently been proposed in the field of learning technology to improve transparency, persu
A collection of quotes from previous Friday 13th columns. When a piglet wants out of his pen, guess what he does? Cops should not be allowed anywherenearlegal minors. It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops. Still think this djinni is ever going back into its bottle?
e) This last observation of LEO aims to underline the possible transfer of behavioral expression mode regarding violence suffered on the part of a father on a teenager between his 9-10 to 13th years. LEO was entrusted to a paternal grandmother ...
[117] Mathematical knowledge from the Middle East was introduced to China under the Mongols, and Muslim astronomers brought Arabic numerals to China in the 13th century. [115] Medicine The physicians of the Yuan court came from diverse cultures. [118] Healers were divided into non-Mongol physi...
Also, in chapter 11 of the 13th-century oral version of JTTW (see here and here), Sun’s antecedent, the “Monkey Pilgrim” (Hou xingzhe, 猴行者), explains that, prior to becoming the primate monarch, he had been exiled to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit in the distant past for ...
effigy (larger version). Zhao Gongming can be seen sleeping in the Shang camp below.Woodblock print from The Newly Printed, Zhong Bojing Annotated, Investiture of the Gods(Xinke Zhong Bojing xiansheng piping Fengshen yanyi, 新刻鍾伯敬先生批評封神演義, c. 1620). See page 42 ofthis PDF. ...